This paper examines whether contacts between caseworkers in public employment offices and employers impact on the reemployment chances of the unemployed they counsel. This analysis is made possible through a large administrative dataset on unemployed combined with an extensive survey of...

We evaluate a randomized experiment of a statistical support system developed to assist caseworkers in Swiss employment offices in choosing appropriate active labour market programmes for their unemployed clients. This statistical support system predicted the labour market outcome for each...

Die Arbeitsämter im Bundesgebiet West unterscheiden sich beträchtlich hinsichtlich ihrer Effizienz. Dies zeigen Berechnungen mit dem Ansatz der 'technischen Effizienzanalyse'. Effizienz wurde auf zwei Niveaus berechnet: Aktivität, z. B. Zahl der Vermittlungen und Zahl der Teilnehmer in...

We evaluate a randomized experiment of a statistical support system developed to assist caseworkers in Swiss employment offices in choosing appropriate active labour market programmes for their unemployed clients. This statistical support system predicted the labour market outcome for each...